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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Hard Hollow Motivational Persevere Rock Soft Water
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Fear Lover One Liner
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Crown Gain Opponent Victory
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Body Conquer Courage Motivational Strength
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Delight Refuse Same Women
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Every lover is a soldier.
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Lover One Liner Soldier

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